BRUSSELS (AP):The United States and other Western nations levelled a torrent of new allegations against Moscow's secretive GRU military spy agency yesterday, accusing its agents of hacking anti-doping agencies, plane crash investigations and a...
WASHINGTON (AP):A high-stakes partisan row quickly broke out yesterday over a confidential FBI report about allegations that Brett Kavanaugh sexually abused women three decades ago, with Republicans claiming investigators found "no hint of...
ALLENTOWN, Pennsylvania (AP):A man killed in a car explosion last weekend with his toddler son and adult friend blew it up with homemade explosives, detailing his plans in letters to police and family in which he lamented how miserable his life was...
NEW YORK (AP):A research arm of the US military is exploring the possibility of deploying insects to make plants more resilient by altering their genes. Some experts say the work may be seen as a potential biological weapon.In an opinion paper...
CHICAGO (AP):Attorneys in the trial of a white Chicago police officer charged with murder in the 2014 shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald sparred over what video of the deadly encounter actually proves yesterday just before jurors withdrew to...
FLORENCE, S.C. (AP) — A Vietnam veteran who bragged online about maintaining his target-shooting skills was being held Thursday in the shooting of seven law enforcement officers, one of whom died, as deputies tried to serve a search warrant...
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Visitors to New Zealand can be fined 5,000 New Zealand dollars or US$3,243 for refusing to provide passwords to unlock electronic devices and allow customs officials to examine them under a new law that a...
VATICAN CITY (AP) :Pope Francis urged Catholic bishops to dream of a future free of the mistakes of the past as he opened a global church leadership meeting Wednesday amid renewed outrage over the priestly sex-abuse and cover-up scandal.Yet down the...
MOSCOW (AP):Russian President Vladimir Putin has replaced the longtime governor of the nation's second-largest city, the latest move in the Kremlin's reshuffle of regional leaders.The 65-year-old Georgy Poltavchenko has served as governor of St...
MEXICO CITY (AP):Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says he has talked to US President Donald Trump about plans for development projects in Central America aimed at reducing the need for people to emigrate north.Lopez Obrador says...
PALU, Indonesia (AP) - The death toll from an earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia has increased to 1,407. National disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said in Jakarta on Wednesday afternoon that 519 of the bodies had been buried. The...
TURIN, Italy (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo has denied “accusations being issued against” him and called rape an “abominable crime.” The 33-year-old Ronaldo has been accused of rape by Kathryn Mayorga. She has said the...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations’ highest court on Wednesday ordered the United States to lift sanctions on Iran that affect imports of humanitarian goods and products and services linked to civil aviation safety. The...
PALU (AP):The death toll from an earthquake and tsunami that decimated parts of the central Indonesian island of Sulawesi jumped to more than 1,200 on Tuesday as disaster officials began reaching coastal areas that were cut off by blocked roads and...
WASHINGTON (AP):The FBI has finished interviewing a friend of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh who was said to have attended a high school gathering in the early 1980s where a woman says she was sexually assaulted by Kavanaugh, the man's lawyer...
Indonesia’s disaster agency says the death toll from an earthquake and tsunami disaster on a central island is now 1,234. Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho updated the figure at a news conference in Jakarta on Tuesday afternoon. The...
BEIRUT (AP):Lebanon's foreign minister led dozens of ambassadors to locations near Beirut's international airport on Monday, including a golf course and a soccer stadium, seeking to dispel Israeli allegations of secret Hezbollah rocket facilities.In...
WASHINGTON (AP)President Donald Trump said Monday he wants the FBI to do a "comprehensive" investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct by Brett Kavanaugh. But he also said he stands by his Supreme Court nominee "all the way".Trump said...
BOGOTA (AP):Colombia's new president is trying to reduce drug use with a decree that bans people from carrying small amounts of marijuana and cocaine in public though courts have said such possession shouldn't be punished.On Monday, President Ivan...
THE HAGUE (AP):The Dutch government is banning a type of electric cart used by many childcare centres to transport young children, saying that an initial investigation into a deadly collision last month has uncovered "potential security risks" with...
BERLIN (AP):Prosecutors in the northern city of Hamburg say a widow kept her husband's body hidden inside her home for 11/2 years after he died because she couldn't bear to part with him.German news agency DPA reported Monday that police found the...
SACRAMENTO, California (AP) — California has become the first state to require publicly traded companies to include women on their boards of directors, one of several laws boosting or protecting women that Governor Jerry Brown signed...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The man at the centre of a sex abuse and financial crimes scandal in Sweden that is tarnishing the academy that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature was convicted of rape and sentenced Monday to two years in prison...
TORONTO (AP) — Canada is back in a revamped North American free trade deal with the United States and Mexico after weeks of bitter, high-pressure negotiations that brushed up against a midnight deadline. In a joint statement, U.S. Trade...
PALU, Indonesia (AP) — Brightly coloured body bags were placed side-by-side in a freshly dug mass grave Monday, as a hard-hit Indonesian city began burying its dead from the devastating earthquake and tsunami that killed more than 840 people...
